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Rumu cover art

Rumu

Robot House · Hammerfall Publishing · 2017-12-12

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 12, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

Rumu is a $9.99 Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2017, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 570 reviews).

0
playing now
90%
positive of 570 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
54/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
3h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Rumu is an Australian adventure game developed by Robot House and published by Hammerfall Publishing on December 12, 2017 on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (92 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 14k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 570 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2019-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
858520172026Week of 2017-12-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.492017-12-132024-07-222017-12-13 — best price $19.992018-02-15 — best price $14.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-09-28 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-07-09 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $7.492020-12-01 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $5.892021-07-08 — best price $9.992023-07-05 — best price $2.492023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-09-18 — best price $7.492023-09-25 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $3.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-07-02 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-07-15 — best price $3.392024-07-22 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-06-01 — 1 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1 pageviews2026-06-13 — 0 pageviews2026-06-17 — 3 pageviews2026-06-21 — 13 pageviews2026-06-25 — 2 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1 pageviews2026-08-21 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 7 pageviews2026-08-29 — 0 pageviews2026-09-02 — 1 pageviews2026-09-06 — 2 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 3 pageviews2026-09-18 — 0 pageviews2026-09-22 — 1 pageviews2026-09-26 — 1 pageviews2026-09-30 — 1 pageviews2026-10-04 — 2 pageviews2026-10-08 — 2 pageviews2026-10-10 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
88%
earned "Consciousness Online"
58.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-10-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6869%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CuteDarkIndieCasualPuzzleRobotsSci-fiMysteryAdventureEmotional

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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